Pictures of the Week: October 4, 2013

Elderly Indians participate in celebrations to mark International Day of Older Persons at an old age home in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Much of the world is not prepared to support the ballooning population of elderly people, including many of the fastest-aging countries, according to a global study.

Capitol Hill police officers look at a car following a shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the U.S. Capitol, police said Thursday. They locked down the entire complex, at least temporarily derailing debate over how to end a government shutdown.

Elderly Indians participate in celebrations to mark International Day of Older Persons at an old age home in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Much of the world is not prepared to support the ballooning population of elderly people, including many of the fastest-aging countries, according to a global study scheduled to be released Tuesday, Oct. 1, by the United Nations and an elder rights group. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) #

Lou Hamrani, 6, walks in the street after attending the Mini Miss model beauty contest, in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. France's Senate voted Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 to ban beauty pageants for children under 16, in an effort to protect children, especially girls from being sexualized too early. Anyone who enters a child into such a contest would face up to two years in prison and 30,000 euros in fines, according to the measure.(AP Photo/Thibault Camus) #

Capitol Hill police officers look at a car following a shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the U.S. Capitol, police said Thursday. They locked down the entire complex, at least temporarily derailing debate over how to end a government shutdown. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) #

A US Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill October 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group of healthcare reform supporters and politicians gathered to celebrate the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's online insurance markets which opened today. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKIBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images #

A rescue worker rests at the site of a collapsed building in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Frantic relatives kept up a vigil at the site of the collapsed apartment building as the search for survivors grew bleak on Saturday. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) #

A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #

Member of the US military are seen on their morning run in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013. The United States lurched into a dreaded government shutdown today for the first time in 17 years, after Congress failed to end a bitter budget row after hours of dizzying brinkmanship. AFP PHOTO / Paul J. RICHARDS #

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Since the summer, Egypt’s military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. The tunnels once employed thousands of young men in Gaza. By early September, with most tunnels closed, only few tunnel workers reported to their jobs for maintenance work. Some mask their faces with shirts to avoid identification while working, for fear of repercussions in case they were to travel to Egypt in the future. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) #

A Pakistani fisherman throws out his net in the Swat river in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. The Pakistan military continues to provide security for years after driving the Taliban out of the idyllic Swat Valley. Most residents fear the return of the Taliban if the army pulls out. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) #

A Roma family of turkish origin sits under an improvised shelter to protect from heavy rain in Eforie Sud, Romania, on September 30, 2013 before an annoucement by the Mayor on their case. Romanian authorities evicted around 100 Roma from a town near the Black Sea coast without providing them with alternative housing, prompting criticism from Amnesty International. The Roma families spent three days in a nearby field despite the cold weather until the mayor decided on September 30, 2013 to host them in an old school.
AFP PHOTO / MUGUR VARZARIU #

South Korean soldiers (foreground) look toward the North Korean side (back) as a North Korean soldier (centre R, back) approaches the UN truce village building that sits on the border of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, on September 30, 2013, during the visit of US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Hagel toured the South-North Korean border on September 30 as he kicked off a trip to key regional allies in the battle to halt Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. AFP PHOTO / POOL / JACQUELYN MARTIN #

Vietnamese plainclothes policemen form a human chain to prevent hundreds of protestors from approaching the People's Court where Vietnamese activist lawyer Le Quoc Quan faces charges of tax evasion at his trial held amid heavy security in Hanoi on October 2, 2013. Police shut roads and used human chains to stop hundreds of protestors from attending the trial of Vietnamese Catholic lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who has been in detention since December 2012 when he blogged on a range of sensitive topics prior to his arrest including civil rights, political pluralism and religious freedom. AFP PHOTO/BARTON CAT #

Employees pose from the balconies of rooms looking out onto the atrium of the Plaza Athenee hotel in Paris on October 1, 2013 as the hotel closes its doors for renovation. The hotel on the Avenue Montaigne in Paris will shut for eight months of renovation, a sad day for many of its locals.
AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR #

Protesters join hands during a demonstration on Capitol Hill October 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group of activists gathered to protest cuts to Social Security. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images #

In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, a Palestinian works in a tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Since the summer, Egypt’s military has tried to destroy or seal off most of the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, a consequence of the heightened tensions between Cairo and the Hamas government in Gaza. The tunnels once employed thousands of young men in Gaza. By early September, with most tunnels closed, only few tunnel workers reported to their jobs for maintenance work. Some mask their faces with shirts to avoid identification while working, for fear of repercussions in case they were to travel to Egypt in the future. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) #